Indian Islam is unique. It is generally cast, both by the popular media and academia, in an image that is severely totalitarian. Mahdawiyya is one among several sects within Indian Islam, which takes continuing revelation seriously. It does so without discarding the traditional belief in the finality of the Qur’an revealed through the Prophet Muhammad. It speaks, like Shi’ism and Sufism of an alternative model of the Saint and Sainthood. The Saints ...
